Quotation by

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

Peace

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The quote highlights how scientific progress, especially in physics, has led to harmful and destructive consequences rather than purely beneficial knowledge. It warns that scientists, through their power and actions, risk damaging the very nature of reality itself.

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